He also called for “collective leadership” if any front is considered. Asked if he would lead the new front, he quipped: “Sharad Pawar has tried this many times before.”
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said that the Congress cannot be left out of any alternative front to take on the BJP.
“An alliance was not discussed in the (Rashtra Manch) meeting but if an alternative force is to be raised, it will be done only by taking Congress together. We need power like that and I had said this in that meeting,” the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Alliance was not discussed in the meeting (Rashtra Manch meeting) but if an alternative force is to be raised, it will be done only by taking Congress together. We need power like that and I had said this in that meeting: NCP Chief Sharad Pawar pic.twitter.com/KSYz1KsC4F
— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2021
This comes after he hosted a meeting of the Rashtra Manch, a forum founded by former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha. at his Delhi residence that grabbed a lot of eyeballs where a handful of non-Congress, non-BJP leaders attended to “discuss current events”
He also called for “collective leadership” if any front is considered. Asked if he would lead the new front, he quipped: “Sharad Pawar has tried this many times before.”
Sharad Pawar’s meetings with political strategist Prashant Kishor over the last 2 weeks have generated many headlines and murmurs of a third front against the BJP in the 2024 General elections.
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âThere are talks that the meeting was for a third front without the Congress, which is not the truth,â said NCP leader Majid Memon. âThere is no discrimination. We called all like-minded people. We also invited Congress leaders. I called Vivek Tanha, Manish Tiwari, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Shatrughan Sinha for the meeting. They couldnât come. Itâs not true that we didnât invite Congress.â
Memon also emphasized the fact that the meeting was called by Yashwant Sinha and that Sharad Pawar merely hosted the meeting.
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, RLDâs Jayant Choudhary, the Samajwadi Partyâs Ghanshyam Tiwari; AAP leader Sushil Gupta; CPIâs Binoy Viswam, and CPMâs Nilotpal Basu were among those who attended the meet.
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